The company, which originated at the University of Michigan but is headquarted now in Chicago, will produce a new sketch-comedy show, titled "Airport for Birds (and Other Great Ideas)" in the Second City's Up Comedy Club, 230 W. North Ave., beginning Jan. 27 under the direction of Corey Lubowich, with musical direction by Nick Gage. The show is slated to introduce original sketch fare, along with short-form video material and music.

Starkid is known (among other things) for its "A Very Potter Musical," its affiliation with Darren Criss of "Glee" and its huge, youthful fan base (including a Twitter following of 120,000; 275,000 YouTube subscribers and 200,000 Facebook fans). This will be the company's first, regularly scheduled live show, although it claims 140 million views of its online parodies.

"To be honest," said a mother who had driven to Chicago from Michigan, just so her daughter could attend the screening of a Team StarKid stage production -- a video of a production, mind you, not the thing itself -- "it kind of reminds me of those shows they put on at Disney World. You know, with...

The father of a 20-year-old Carol Stream, Ill., woman who drowned at Indiana's Porter Beach on Friday night identified her body Sunday afternoon after a rescue team pulled her from Lake Michigan, authorities said.

A burst of thunderstorm activity across the Chicago area in Sunday afternoon resulted in multiple injuries and a death at an event in west suburban Wood Dale, the collapse of a dome in northwest suburban Rosemont and the temporary evacuation of the music festival Lollapalooza in Grant Park downtown.